Subscribe to this site on Medium Follow this site on Facebook Follow this site on Instagram Jasmine was my best, most loyal friend, Alover to the bone, all hot affection. Squirming out the moment I came near, Making for my nose or inner ear, ...
Key: In my mind, a hero should only think about others and forget about his own life and glories. However, in this poem, the man is seeking for rewards and is thinking about being knighted if he can live through the war. “And is always as nobly requited”, “And, ...
Ouyang Xiu described a woman's longing for the man she met during Lantern Festival in his poem Yuan Xi. It___48___(go)like this: "Last lantern festival, the flower fair___49___(decorate)with lights was daylight bright. We met after dusk when the moon rose behind willow trees. ...
Paul and Mary's "Puff, the Magic Dragon." The song was based on a 1959 poem by Leonard Lipton, who wrote it when he was 19 years old. Being it was the early '60s, some speculated that the song had something to do with drug-taking, but this simply wasn't...
a永远留在我身边的开心姐姐 Forever keeps my side happy elder sister [translate] a我不知道他们的英文是什么 I did not know their English is any [translate] aoh okay oh okay [translate] a入殓师是一份要为逝者清洁、更衣、化妆、祈祷, Encoffins the teacher is must for the deceased clean, change...
Hoyt was a member of a socially prominent but deeply troubled family that included her recently deceased sister, the poet and writerElinor Wylie(I wrote about the Hoyt family in my postGeneration of Vipers).Characters in Hoyt’s novels often resembled the women in her family. ...
Write about a deceased public figure who had a strong effect on you. When was the moment you knew they were influential? Lament the fading away of an idea, a fad, a movement or an invention in the form of a poem. In classic elegiac couplets, write about an imaginary person no longer...
Yes, her life might be small, but after putting her own dreams on hold long ago to serve as caregiver for her recently-deceased mother, there is little for her to pursue outside of Clover Hill. With too many debts to pay and too many regretful memories in her silent home, she can’...
And she mythologizes her “real life characters” in order to make the personal public, thus furthering the subversion of the epic poem. Each woman is connected through various mothers as well as their refusals to yield to the oppressive patriarchal forces of imperialism. The Elysian Fields,...
My World… and Welcome to Itwas cancelled after one season. Nevertheless, it would win two Emmys: one for Windom and another for Best Comedy Series. * * * Thank Heaven for Maurice Things were looking up a bit in the talking movie department thanks to theErnst Lubitsch-directedThe Love Pa...